Combined beer-cooler and ice-water device.



No. 687,879. Patented Dec. 3, min.

' J. w. a J. T. HARRIS.

COMBINED BEER COOLER AND ICE WATER DEVICE.

(Application filed July 20, 1901.)

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JOSHUA W. HARRIS AND JOHN T. HARRIS, OF FREDERIOKSBURG, VIRGINIA.

COMBINED BEER=COOLERAND lCE -WATER DEVICE.

SPECIFTCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 687,879, dated December3, 1901. Application filed July 20, 1901. Serial No. 69,103. (No model)To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, JOSHUA W. HARRIS and JOHN T. HARRIS, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Fredericksburg, in the county ofSpottsyl-vania and State of Virginia,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a CombinedBeer-Cooler and Ice -Wator Device; and we do declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact descripre tion of the invention, such aswillenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and

to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

Our invention has relation to improvements in a combined beer-cooler andice-water receptacle and it has for its object to cool'the beer at aproper temperature and at the same time serve the purpose of holdingwater for drinking purposes.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the novel constructionand combination of parts, as will be hereinafter more in detaildescribed, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which fully illustrate our invention,Figure 1 is a top or plan view of our invention. tional elevation of thesame.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothfigures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a rectangular jacket, and B acorresponding 3 5 ice-water receptacle in said jacket, leaving a spacebetween the two, and which are divided off by a transverse partition C,and between the inner and outer Walls of these boxes and within thespace or jacket referred to is interposed a packing of suitable materialto prevent the ice from melting too quickly.

D and D designate duplicate beer-tanks located within the receptacle Beach side of.

the partition 0. These tanks are provided with circular flanges K K attheir upper ends, by means of which the ice is held upon the tanks, andshort legs d d. to hold them above the bottom, so that the ice water cancirculate all around the tanks and also with cen- 5o trally-disposedtubular openings E E, which Fig. 2 is a secallow the water from the iceto pass through them as it slowly melts and also hold the tanks in shapeand strengthen them, so that they will not bulge in the center and causethe ice to slip from ofi them.

F designates a pipe, which is passed through the partition C, connectingthe two tanks, one with the other. This pipe is provided with unions ff, one upon each side of the partition 0, and between the union f andthe partition 0 is a stop-cock G.

H and H designate pipes secured to the tank I) and projected therefromthrough the ends and front of the boxes. These pipes are provided alsowith unions h and h and stopcocks 71 and if, the tank D having pipes Ialso secured thereto and projected through the boxes at their oppositeends and in front thereof and provided with unions and stop cockssimilar to the tank D, hereinbefore described. 7

I designates duplicate hose having nipples secured upon one end of eachand secured to plugs or small funnels on top of the kegs.- These hoseattachments connect at their op- 7 5 posite endsto any suitable kind ofair -pump, either hand or power, by which to force the beer up into thetanks. 1

I designates a pipe or hose, which is con; nected to the pipe H by meansof the union i, and leading into a keg I, through the medium of whichthe beer as it is conveyed to the tanks is run. A similar connection ismade to a duplicate pipe of tank D for the same purpose.

J designates waste-pipe and cook attachment whereby any water in theWater-receptacle may be drawn off for drinking or other purposes.

K designates a rectangular drip-pan secured to the front or forwardportion of the outer box, which serves to catch the dripping from thefaucet h The tanks are used in lieu of the usual coils and the ice islaid upon top of them, the icewater being kept around the tanks as theice melts and utilized not only for cooling the beer, but for drinkingpurposes. The stopcocks secured to the pipe connections between thetanks is only used when only one I00 keg is on tap. Then it is turnedopen, so that both tanks are used for one kind of beer, thus keepingboth tanks in constant use. The unions carried by the pipe connectionsbetween the two tanks are used when it is necessary to take out and washthe tanks, these tanks being made of copper and lined on the inside withtin, the unions on the free ends of the end pipes of the tanks servingthe purpose of coupling the tanks with the kegs.

By our construction of device, as herein described, we can keep in coldstorage five to ten gallons of cold beer, or more, if desired, by usinglarger tanks, whereas the usual coils only hold a small quantity and thecoils will corrode and also must be washed at short intervals, whilewith our device there is no accumulation of poisonous substances andthere will be no need of washing more than once in ten days.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described beer-cooler, comprising the ice-water receptacle B,provided with the jacket A, vertical cylindrical tanks D D having thevertical passages E E, flanges K, and legs (1, transverse partition 0,connectingpipe F, passing through the partition, having the unions ff,stop-cock G, pipes H, H, projecting through the ends and front of theiceboX, and provided with unions h, h, pipes I, having the unions a,hose 1 having the nipples Z, and drip-pan K, all constructed andarranged as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in, presence of twowitnesses.

JOSHUA W. HARRIS. JOHN T. HARRIS.

' Witnesses:

JNo. M. W. GREEN, CONTEE S. FISKLEN.

